An interdisciplinary exploration of the most recent research trends and directions in the humanities This issue of Alif is dedicated to efforts to redefine and reorient the humanities in light of global institutional and intellectual realities. Mapping is construed in several ways the more literal meaning of geographical reorientation in the sense of efforts to redefine the relationship between global north and south and between Western and nonWestern intellectual traditions. It also refers to the remapping of the modern university by interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work in the humanities that brings it to new shores such as the digital humanities and medical humanities. Essays map out ways for the humanities to better engage the extraacademic pressures shaping the modern university as it remains true to its own best longstanding goals and values. Editorial Board alphabetically by last name Omaima Abou Bakr Cairo University Saad Albazei King Saud University Gaber Asfour Cairo University Mohammed Berrada University of Mohamed V Ira Dworkin Texas AampampM University Ziad Elmarsafy Kings College London Sabry Hafez SOAS University of London Richard Jacquemond Aix Marseille University Cza KassemDraz AUC and Cairo University Asad Khairallah American University of Beirut Andrew N. Rubin University of Texas at Dallas Randa Sabry Cairo University Doris EnrightClark Shoukri AUC Hoda Wasfi Ain Shams University Contributors alphabetically by last name Shereen Abouelnaga Cairo University Egypt Tamer Amin American University of Beirut Lebanon Brian James Baer Kent State University Ohio USA Abdesslam Benabdelali Mohammed V University Rabat Morocco Claire Gallien University Paul Valry Montpellier France Nadia Hashish Ain Shams University Cairo Egypt Naglaa Saad Hassan Fayoum University Egypt Hassan Hilmy Hassan II University Casablanca Morocco Samia Al Hodathy Paris Nanterre University France Hala Kamal Cairo University Egypt David Konstan New York University USA Hossam Nay